Gene Hackman
2) Hoosiers
Language
English
Description
A basketball coach with a checkered past leads him to a last-chance position with a last-chance team.
3) Get Shorty
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmakerHarry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it were't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.
4) The Firm
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.
5) Unforgiven
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The town of Big Whisky people try to lead a quiet life. Sheriff 'Little Bill' keeps heavy-handed order. Then a couple of cowboys cut up a whore. Unsatisfied with Bill's justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as 'The Schofield Kid, ' and aging killer William Munny. Munny is a widower trying to raise his two young children. Farm life is hard and Munny is no good at it. He calls on his old...
7) The birdcage
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
A gay man who runs a Miami nightclub must convince his son's future in-laws that he's as uptight as they are. But can he keep up the act when they come for a visit?
Series
Criterion collection volume 494
Language
English
Formats
Description
Director Michael Ritchie's (*The Golden Child*) debut film is a tense and taut look at the world of Olympic skiing. Robert Redford plays the hero, Chappellet, a handsome loner from Colorado, bent on making it to the top and Gene Hackman plays his demanding coach. As the pressure and tension build, Chappellet learns how fleeting and lonely fame can be. Winner of Best Actor (Robert Redford) at the **BAFTA Awards**. Nominated for Best Drama Written Directly...
11) Antz
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Life is no picnic for Z, a small worker ant with some very big ideas, whose chances with the beautiful Princess Bala are literally one in a billion. When Z convinces his soldier ant buddy to switch places with him, his simple life takes a wild turn.
14) Superman II
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Unwittingly released from Phantom Zone imprisonment, three super-powered Planet Krypton criminals plan to enslave Earth. At the same time, Superman decides to show a more romantic side of himself to Lois Lane.
15) Absolute Power
Series
Language
English
Description
He was where he shouldn't have been and saw what he shouldn't have seen. Now, who will believe the word of a career thief and ex-con? Who will trust Luther Whitney when he says he saw a woman killed, and that the man responsible for her death is the President of the United States?
17) Unforgiven
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
This documentary examinmes the American film and television industry's response to the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi persecution of the Jews before, during, and after World War II. Extended film clips, and interviews with filmmakers, scholars, and survivors who work in the film industry, are used to tell this important story.